Welcome on this page, which will help you to (re)discover Fufu's personality through several things he said the rare times he had been interviewed during his career. You'll be able to learn more information about his life using the alphabet letters: his feelings about love, family, work, money... sorted according to the adjective's first letter.

The sentences written in italic are the questions that the journalist asked to Louis de Funès during the concerned interview; Louis de Funès' answers are written in normal characters for better readability. For the convenience of all non-French-speaking readers from this website, the quotes have been translated into English. They may not totally reflect Louis de Funès' thoughts, although a huge effort has been put to make an accurate translation. English translations are written using the same color as this text.

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A comme... l'Amour et l'Amitié (L like... Love and friendship)

A comme... l'Amour et l'Amitié (L like... Love and friendship)

Je vis par l'amour et pour l'amour. Je m'estime chanceux d'avoir l'amour de ma femme et de mes deux enfants et de pouvoir respirer et vivre de cet amour. Je me demande comment font les gens qui vivent sans amour. Ceux que j'aime sont mon inspiration quotidienne pour me dépasser et réussir humblement dans ce que j'ai entrepris.I'm living through love and for love. I think I'm lucky to be loved by my wife and my two children and that I can breathe and live from this love. I'm wondering how can people live without love. Those I love are my daily inspiration to break my limits and be humbly successful in everything I've started.(unknown date)

Il en faut, c'est indispensable. Mais je mène un train de vie assez humble et j'ai la même maison depuis 20 ans. Je roule dans une petite voiture qui ne consomme pas beaucoup d'essence. Je n'aurai jamais le temps de dépenser tout l'argent que j'ai gagné au cinéma. Je n'aurais pas le temps de vivre alors.It's something we need, that's for sure. But I have a quite humble way of life and live in the same home since 20 years. I have a car which doesn't needs a lot of fuel. I'll never have the time to spend all the money I've earned through the cinema. I'd not have the time to live then.(unknown date)

Elle déteste qu'on vienne nous regarder sous le nez pour voir à quoi nous ressemblons. Non, elle vit chez elle, elle mène son existence de femme d'intérieur. En ce moment, elle fait la cuisine et le ménage, car nous sommes sans domestique. Il est de plus en plus difficile d'en trouver. Comme les bons scénarios !My wife does not look like the wife of a star. She lives hidden. She is rarely shown because she doesn't like to go out in fashion places. She hates to be watched from anywhere only to know how we look like. No, she lives at home, she lives her homemaker life. She's currently doing housework because we are servantless. They're more and more difficult to find. Like good scenarios!(unknown date)

Je trouve que rien n'est trop beau pour elle. Et pourtant, elle a un défaut. Ou une qualité. Ça dépend des gens. Elle serait plutôt économe que dépensière. Elle déteste le gaspillage.What fills me with pleasure, is that I can offer her everything a women can desire. I'm always finding that nothing is too beautiful for her. Nevertheless, she has a default. Or a quality. It depends on the point of view. She would rather be a saver than a spender. She hates waste.(ibid)

J'ai parfois très peur de ressembler à ce de Funès que je vois à l'écran lorsque j'assiste à la première d'un de mes films. J'ai la crainte d'être vil, par exemple. Et c'est vrai qu'il m'est arrivé de me comporter dans la vie tel qu'on m'aperçoit dans mes films. De faire des ronds de jambes... I'm sometimes very afraid to look like this de Funès I see on the screen when I'm going to the premiere of one of my films. I'm afraid to be vile, for example. And it's true that I already behaved in real life like I can be seen in my films. By doing classical dance steps...(September 1970)

Oui, j'aime le fait d'être connu et aimé de beaucoup de gens. Au départ, cela m'effrayait un peu. Je sentais que l'on empiétait sur mon terrain, mais maintenant, je l'accepte comme un hommage, comme une sorte de passion. Et c'est merveilleux.Yes, I like to be known and loved from many people. At first, I was a little afraid. I felt invaded, but now, I accept it as an honour, as a kind of passion. And it's marvelous.(unknown date)